The Spelman College Museum of Fine Art will present a BLACK BOX featuring artist Michaela Pilar Brown's The Mother Wound

The Spelman College Museum of Fine Art will present a BLACK BOX featuring artist Michaela Pilar Brown’s The Mother Wound on Wednesday, March 23, 2016, at 6:30 p.m. The 40-minute performance uses sound, video projection, and body markings to explore the genetic memory of trauma. During the performance, Brown will invite the audience to join her as she explores the history of her mother’s wounds as a metaphor for existing psychological and physical disease among Black women and the connection of disease to the oppression of Black women in the Americas.

BLACK BOX is a site for play, dialogue, and creative risk taking where an artist shares an in-progress work in front of an audience for feedback, engagement, and encouragement. It also provides a space for arts enthusiasts to view compelling work from some of the most exciting and thought-provoking artists working today. Each BLACK BOX focuses on the art and culture of the African Diaspora.

Free and open to the public, this event will be held at Spelman College Museum of Fine Art in the Camilla Olivia Hanks Cosby, Ed.D. Academic Center (GPS Address: 440 Westview Drive, Atlanta 30310). For more information, visit museum.spelman.edu or call (404) 270-5607.